'We didn't do enough': 2020 interview with Proud Boys leader Tarrio foreshadows Capitol violence

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Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio faces a 22-year sentence for planning the January 6 insurrection. An interview with Tarrio from Election Day 2020 seemingly foreshadowed what would happen three years later.

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00:00 This isn't a conspiracy theory, but I think I would be put in chains if Biden is elected.

00:06 "Let America die!"

00:08 "And I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world."

00:14 "What are we here for? To stop the steal!"

00:19 "Stop the steal!"

00:21 They're going to weaponize some type of agency against us and put us in jail.

00:26 [crowd noise]

00:33 "B.L.M. Plaza."

00:35 [crowd noise]

00:45 Are we semi-violent? I'd say yeah.

00:47 Violence is self-defense is still violence.

00:50 But when somebody provokes us and somebody attacks us, we are going to fight back.

00:54 But to just say that we're people that just say that we're violent

00:57 or people that think that we're white supremacists,

00:59 I really don't have anything to say to those people.

01:01 [crowd noise]

01:03 "Guys, they're asking for help! They're asking for help!"

01:07 "USA! USA! USA!"

01:12 If he wins and he wins fair and square, we didn't do enough.

01:16 Republicans just didn't do enough to get the president re-elected.

01:19 We didn't knock on enough doors.

01:21 We didn't reach out to enough people. We didn't bring more people to vote.

01:24 [crowd noise]

01:25 "We are unarmed! We are unarmed citizens!"

01:29 [crowd noise]

01:35 "Eyes up! Eyes up! Eyes up!"

01:40 [crowd noise]

01:51 [crowd chanting] "Stop the steal! Stop the steal!"

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